2025 Blog Dinner Tickets

Here are details for our annual SBL blog dinner. This year is a big one since its our 20th anniversary as a blog! It will be Sunday night at 7:15pm at Tremont Temple Baptist Church. That’s about 1.5 miles from the convention center. Yes, it does mean missing the Cambridge reception, but it’s worth it. As always, everyone is welcome, even those who don’t love textual criticism or Donald Trump.

Details

There doesn’t seem to be a NT text criticism session Sunday night. That means we will probably not be able to easily travel as a group to the church. So just plan to meet there.

• Cost: $28.75 (includes pizza, Baptist drinks, salad, and fees); no tip needed unless you really like my jokes!
• Time: 7:15pm–9:30pm on Sunday, November 23rd
• Place: Tremont Temple Baptist Church, 88 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108
• Emcee: Probably me unless I can convince John Meade to come and use his Boston accent
• Giveaways: hopefully some books will be given away!

Special Requests

• Car: if anyone will have a car at SBL that you could use to help us pick up the pizzas, could you email me? That would be a huge help and we will give you a free ticket too. We got one, thanks!
• Allergies: If you need gluten or dairy free pizza, can you let us know in the comments? Peter Montoro is willing to accomodate those but only if he knows ahead of time.

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Thanks

Special thanks to Peter Montoro for finding the venue and to the pastors at the church for hosting us on such short notice.

The Blog Dinner Is On

Good news! After no small difficulty in finding a place to host us for the annual blog dinner, we think we have found a place. We are still working out details on the price, so stay tuned for ticket sales, which we hope to come out under $30. 

In the meantime, mark your calendars for Sunday, November 23, 2025 at Tremont Temple Baptist Church at 7:15pm. That should give us time to get to the church from the last TC session that evening. 

The address is 88 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108. The church is about 1.5 miles from the Hynes Convention Center. That’s a 30 minute walk for us non-Olympian walkers. I’m sorry for that but it’s the best we could do. (Some of us from warmer climates may need to Uber to survive.)

We do hope many of you can make it as this is our 20th anniversary as a blog and the dinner is always the highlight of SBL for many of us. 

A special thanks to Christian Askeland and Peter Montoro for working on this!